australia definetely needs a bill of rights. the tshirt is not going to physically harm anyone. people may be offended but i'm sure there are some religious people out there that are offended by semi-naked billboards of women yet the australian police don't arrest the billboard maker.

If you watch the video in your link, the reporter says it's not the text (that you refer to) by itself, but the sexual imagery along with the text. The Chief Censor also very clearly says that simply possessing the T Shirt is illegal, which answers your question. The law is very clear about what is unacceptable.

I'm also pretty sure that Australia has an equivalent to our Bill of Rights.

When you live your life on Twitter and Facebook, and are only friends with like minded people on Twitter and Facebook, you are not living in the real world. You are living in a narcissistic echo chamber.

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If you watch the video in your link, the reporter says it's not the text (that you refer to) by itself, but the sexual imagery along with the text. The Chief Censor also very clearly says that simply possessing the T Shirt is illegal, which answers your question. The law is very clear about what is unacceptable.

I'm also pretty sure that Australia has an equivalent to our Bill of Rights.

While I do find the t-shirt to be mildly offensive - not all of it, just the C word - I see no reason to ban it outright. It's not inciting hatred, aggression or violence toward anyone. And, also, it's rather truthful: The ordained do masturbate on occasion. One would have to be pretty naive to think that they don't.

Perhaps what Cradle of Filth are doing here is making a statement about the hypocrisy that often exist within the Christain clergy. They're well within their rights to do so, even if they are rather brash about it.

I'm not religious in any way, shape or form but do not agree with this sort of shirt being publicly displayed.

In the western society in which we live, the predominant religion is Christianity and this t-shirt looks to be deliberately designed to cause maximum offence to christians through both it's wording and it's imagery.

It's definitely not the sort of thing I would like my young children (daughters) to see, then have to keep changing the subject when the inevitable barrage of questions starts up.

The wearer of this shirt would probably also be exposing themselves to some serious violence, which may even be their intention, but they wouldn't receive an ounce of symapthy from me for any negative consequences they might experience.

And while I agree we don't need a nanny state I don't see this as being part of one. I see it as trying to cling to at least some standards of decency.

I'm not religious and I've even been known to use the c word myself at times (not in front of my parents or kids though) but I would certainly be pissed off if I got on a bus with my 3 & 4 year old girls and someone was standing there wearing that t-shirt. I support the censor on this one, I do not think it is fit for general display at all.